Empress Zhang (張皇后, personal name unknown), also known as Tiande Empress (天德皇后) (after her husband

Wang Yanzheng Wang Yanzheng () (died 951?), known as Tiande Emperor () after his era name of Tiande, formally Prince Gongyi of Fu (), also known during Min as the Prince of Fusha (), was the last ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state ...

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of Tiande), was the last empress of the

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state

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(and, prior to that, the empress of the branch state

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) as the wife of

, who was the emperor of both of those states. Very little is known about Empress Zhang. When Wang Yanzheng was the Prince of Fusha under his brother Wang Xi (Emperor Jingzong of Min), she was the Princess of Fusha. It is not known whether she bore any children for him, including whether she was the mother of his only known son, Wang Jiyi (王繼沂).''

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In 943, when he declared himself the emperor of a new state of Yin in competition with Wang Xi, he created her empress.''

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'', vol. 283. That was the last historical reference to her, and it is not known when she died. She is traditionally listed as one of the empresses of Min, implying that she lived at least to 945, when Wang Yanzheng reclaimed that title.

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